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September 2009

H-WORLD Discussion Topics
Current Journal Contents

Here are topics of recent and lively H-WORLD discussions on issues relevant to research. For details, see the H-WORLD discussion logs at http://www.h-net.org/~world

September 2009 (45 postings total)
  • "Bharat Britain: South Asians making Britain, 1870-1950 - London 09/10," (09/07). Dr. Florian Stadtler posts an announcement of an upcoming conference arising out of the 3-year AHRC-funded project, 'Making Britain: South Asian Visions of Home and Abroad, 1870-1950.'
  • "Book reviews of interest for WH studies," (09/11). R. Charles Weller volunteers a list of book reviews appearing in Volume 16, issue 4, of Reviews in Religion and Theology.
August 2009 (62 postings total)
  • "2010 AHA convention to violate hotel workers union/LGBT boycott," (08/27 - 08/31). This thread covers a lot of territory quickly, discussing Proposition 8, the democratic rights of individual action as well as individual and group protest, and concerns about the appropriate path of action for the AHA to take in the controversy.
  • "Midwest World History Association forming," (08/10 - 08/13). Paul Jentz announces the development of the MWHA, and other posters suggest alternate titles or boundaries for the still-developing WHA affiliate.
  • "WHA's conferences," (08/10 - 08/19). Discussion on possible improvements, expansions, and alterations to the established methods of paneling and discussion at the WHA and WHA affiliate conferences.
  • "Where and how to publish world history," (08/10 - 08/12). Posed by a new writer and answered by several more tenured voices in the field, a short discussion on choosing one's press and publishing dissertations.
July 2009 (26 postings total)
    "Curating the oceans: the future of Singapore's past (from HNNCliopatria blog)," (07/15 - 07/17). A short but fascinating thread of only two posts, the first of which is a crossposted copy of an article regarding the discovery and subsequent purchase by Singapore of a sunken dhow's cargo of Tang-era ceramics. The second post notes that the same story was covered by National Geographic, and promotes the magazine's recently developed trend of covering, as Peter Dykema writes, "something very akin to our notions of the 'new world history,'" suggesting that the venerable magazine has a pertinence to current world historical studies.
Current Journal Contents
Journal of World History 20, 3 (Sept 2009)
  • Pollard, Elizabeth Ann. "Pliny’s Natural History and the Flavian Templum Pacis: Botanical Imperialism in First-Century c.e. Rome." pp. 309-338
  • Pankenier, David W. "The Planetary Portent of 1524 in China and Europe." pp. 339-375
  • Foley, Sean. "Muslims and Social Change in the Atlantic Basin." pp. 377-398
  • Zastoupil, Lynn. "“Notorious and Convicted Mutilators”: Rammohun Roy, Thomas Jefferson, and the Bible." pp. 399-434

Journal of World-Systems Research XV, 2 (2009)
  • York, Richard, Eugene A. Rosa and Thomas Dietz. "A Tale of Contrasting Trends: Three Measures of the Ecological Footprint in China, India, Japan, and the United States, 1961-2003." 13 pgs.
  • Baronov, David. "The Role of Historical-Cultural Formations within World-Systems Analysis: Reframing the Analysis of Biomedicine in East Africa." 20 pgs.
  • Shin, Kyoung-ho, and Paul S. Ciccantell. "The Steel and Shipbuilding Industries of South Korea: Rising East Asia and Globalization." 26 pgs.
  • Gellert, Paul K. and Jon Shefner. "People, Place, and Time: How Structural Fieldwork Helps World-Systems Analysis." 26 pgs.

World History Connected 6, 3 (October 2009)
  • Spier, Fred, "Big History: The Emergence of an Interdisciplinary Science?," 41 pars.
  • Markley, Jonathan, ""A child said, 'What is the grass?'": Reflections on the Big History of the Poaceae," 41 pars.
  • Alvarez, Walter, "A Geologial Perspective on Big History," 45 pars.
  • Brown, Cynthia Stokes, "What Is a Civilization, Anyway?," 32 pars.
  • Christian, David, "Contingency, Pattern and the S-curve in Human History," 64 pars. with 12 figures.
  • Benjamin, Craig, "The Convergence of Logic, Faith and Values in the Modern Creation Myth," 18 pars.
  • Harris, Lauren McArthur, and Sarah Hamilton, "Challenges and Opportunities: Reflections on Teaching Big History Discussion Sections," 19 pars. with lesson plan.
  • Rodrigue, Barry, and Daniel Stasko, "A Big History Directory, 2009: An Introduction," 9 pars. with bibliographic and linked resource list.
  • Maunu, John, "Bringing Big History Down to Classroom Size: Concepts and Resources," 13 pars. with links list.
  • Pattiz, Anthony, "Using a Japanese War Crime Trial Simulation to Expand Students' Understanding of the Roots of Wartime Atrocities, Mass Killings and Genocide," 39 pars. with two appendices.
  • Diskant, James A., "Engaging Students to Act Like Historians: Ideas to Entice Thoughtful Collaboration and Positive Interactions Before Students Begin to Complain that History is Boring!," 15 pars. with 6 addenda.
  • Cohen, Sharon, "Why do students find reading history challenging?," 6 pars.